The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-06
Patents for Indianians.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. April 5.-Patents were granted
Indianians to-day as follows:
Charles E. Anderson. LaPorte, fence machine:
Autonomous B. Austin. Fit Wayne, drst-pan;
John B. Bennett and F. W. Samuels, Indianopo-
lis, target trap; George g. F. Boswell. assignor
Of two-ffths to J. E. Boswell, Indianapolis,
stalk harvester: Henry L. Brown. Indianapolis.
air pump; William H. Brown, Indianapolis as
sgnor to c. H. Sparks Chicago, Jail prison;
George S. Claw, North Indianapolis, scythe
snath coupling; Mary E. Cory. Richmond, sleeve
protector Elizabeth E. Fisher. Delphi, ward
robe hook; George W. Imme. Logansport, door
clamp; Francis NJ. and S. c. Love, Shebyvile,
wire fence machine; Amos Mendenhall. Union
port, gold mining device; James N. Loore and
A. L. Minor, Lowell car-coupling; Orvice K.
Patterson, Willis Grove. assignor Of one-half to
j. K. Patterson, Petersburg. combined square
and beve; Charles E. Sweeney, assignor to c. r.
Long, M. E. Sweeney, Perceton, and T. j.
Keagy. Kosciusko county. corn-planter; Henry
II. Wilson, Huntington. table-leaf support.
Appointments by the President.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The President to-day
appointed the following government directors of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company: Frederick
R. Codurt, of New York; Franklin MacVeigh. Of
Chicago; Alexander Haskell, of Columbia, S. c.;
Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland, O., and James
w. Savage, of Omaha, Neb. all reappointments,
their former terms having expired.
The President also appointed Fred j. Bland
ing, of st. Croix Falls, Wis, to be register of
the land Office at that place, vice Michael Field,
term expired, and Henry Cornelius, of Me-
nasha, Wis, to be register of the land Office at
that place, vice George W. Fay, term expired
Seid Backs Purchase of Oatmeal.
WASHINGTON, April "a claim has been pre-
sented at the Treasury Department for refund
of money paid for seized property sold as opium.
but which proved to be nothing but oatmeal.
The sale was made by the collector of customs
at Portland, Ore and the innocent purchaser
was Cninaman named Sed Back. The seizure
consisted of thirty nine small cans each of which
designated prepared opium and ali were
sold such at the rate OF Sc per OF this
number twenty nine cans contained oatmeal,
worth about 81, for which the purchaser paid
STA The question presented is, shall the col
iector be directed to refund the money.
General and Personal.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 5.-Representative elect
Hovey, of the First Indiana district is here
looking after business in the departments for
constituents.
Henry Garrett of Indiana, was to-day pro.
NOTED from third to second assistant examiner
in the Patent Office, his salary being raised from
81, 400 to $1,000, and Mrs. Gray Robertson, Of
Indiana, was promoted from 5000 to 81 600.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that national bank repositories are not required
to redeem trade dollars under the recent act.
Baron Taverna, the new Austrian minister to
| the United States, was presented to the Presi-
| dent to-day. by Secretary Bayard
The President has declined to interfere in the
case of Patrick Mccarthy, convicted of murder
at Fort Smith, Ark. He was sentenced to be
| hanged but reprieve of ninety days was
| granted, which will expire on Friday next.
| Bills of Exchange Endorsed by Office Boys.
| Special to the Indianapolis journal.
Boston, April ga St. John. n B., dispatch
to the Globe says: sit has been discovered that
bills of exchange which have passed between the
Stewart firms, Guy. Bevan & Co.. and the Mari
time Bank, were Endorsed by from nine to a
dozen boys in the employ Of the the three con
Germs. Yesterday the English mail brought no
tees to several of these lads that bills bearine
their names had been dishonored, and asking
them to provide for them. The swinde has beeE
| going on for several months, and the brokers
| who accepted the bills believed that the indoors
ers were responsible men. One lad states thai
| formerly no Endorsement was required, but AZ
| the paper became known in the Upper Canadian
| and New York markets the banks demanded
| that it should bear second name. then the
services of the boys were called into reQuisilion
The lads say that they were not shown the face
of the bills, and until they received the notices
| did not know the amounts that were contained
on them. Some of the boys have Endorsed to thu
extent of "a, 900 and Cd, 000."